Understanding signalling to augment healthy ageing

One of the keys to understanding and augmenting healthy ageing is to understand stress-responsive signaling and how it is modulated with age. Normal ageing results from the imbalance between cellular damage, accrued throughout life, and the progressive decline in stress response and repair pathways.

coordinated changes in protein synthesis and turnover, including autophagy and

moderation of mitochondrial respiratory metabolism

These adaptive responses are controlled by intracellular signalling pathways, which act to maintain cellular and organismal homeostasis in the face of changes in nutrient availability, oxidative stress, protein misfolding and DNA damage.